The uceprotect Level 3 page clearly says using the list will cause collateral damage and should only use as an indicator as part of a spam score, not to act purely on it.

So, yes, if a service provider is known for having a lot of spam coming from it, it makes sense to be on there. They're not saying every IP is bad, they're literally stating the opposite (which seems fair).

So, if Orange are blocking purely based on it, not only are they using a spam filter as a DNS query/web filter (given uceprotect seems to flag based on mail spam traps based detections etc.) and ignoring their documentation (which says it shouldn't be used to block on it's own).

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goldenmember 2 days ago | parent [-]

Well, if it's just an indicator, why not delist automatically on request, as other blocklists do? It seems inappropriate to charge for this.

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niels8472 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

And not just charge. You need to get a subscription even!

	▲	portagescout 2 days ago \| parent [-]
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nubinetwork 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Theoretically speaking, a person could get themselves blocked, request an unblocking, and keep on spamming, hoping they won't get blocked again.

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john_strinlai 2 days ago | parent [-]

right now, they can apparently just spend $108/year and keep on spamming.

	▲	AndrewKemendo 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		This is what capitalist “regulation” looks like in practice

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literalAardvark 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Because they don't want to. You can create one too and add whoever you like to it.

The problem is either with other things raising your scores (very likely) or with Orange dropping traffic based on the wrong list (unlikely)